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Description: | Faience plaque with upper side in form derived from a scarab with feathered legs, the upper legs turned into an open lotus flower motif with insets for inlays, now lost, the lower legs turned into a fivefold feather or loop motif, the scarab itself a small rectangle with vertical grooves between top and bottom horizontal grooves, occupying the centre of an arched segment, with open space beneath; on the underside is a sunk relief design comprising, top, nefer-hieroglyph, five pointed-star, and senetj-hieroglyph, now incomplete; centre remains of a scrolling design with dotted circles along borders; and lowermost the hieroglyphs 'Lord of ka-spirits' to the left of a right facing snake; two segments and centre missing, the remainder broken into two fragments. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=New Kingdom; start=-1550; end=-1350 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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